By Karen Sheehan, MD When I was a pediatric emergency medicine fellow in the early 1990s, I spent a month working in the Cook County Trauma Unit. It was not uncommon to get 20-30 gunshot victims a night. It was … Read More
By Karen Sheehan, MD There were nearly 300 shootings in Chicago in January — over twice as many as last January and three times as many as January 2014. It feels like it must be easier to get a gun … Read More
June 18, 2013 By Karen Sheehan, MD From Saturday afternoon until Father’s Day morning, six men were killed by firearms and over two dozen people were shot. Instead of attending barbecues or family picnics, these victims’ loved ones are planning … Read More
By Karen Sheehan, MD I recently attended my last elementary school winter assembly, made all the more sweet after what happened in Newtown. For the past 20 years, I have been privileged to take care of children who lived in … Read More
